Wager's allusions to the psalm draw upon the iconography established in the illuminated tradition, in which the historiated "D" that introduces this psalm in Latin (Dixit insipiens in corde suo: non est Deus) often contains "the portrait of a fool.

The remaining five illustrated manuscripts contain five historiated initials picturing the poet/ narrator, six equestrian pilgrim portraits, and three pairs of figures representing a Sin (mounted on a beast) and a Virtue to accompany "The Parson's Tale" in Cambridge University Library MS Gg.

This book sets out primarily to provide a new interpretation of the unique series of historiated initials in the twelfth-century" English 'St Albans Psalter', founded, regrettably, on a series of false premisses.

On high feast days, the choir stalls of late medieval French churches were hung with vibrant historiated tapestries that were, to borrow the famous words of a modern art historian, "the deposit of a social relationship.

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